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Can't wait for the TTRPG discourse to come up with the next word that explains what I've been doing all along.

Needs more pineapple.

I do not want a market leader. I don't want to replace a feral 900 pound gorilla with a supposedly friendly 800 gorilla. What I want is four or five hungry 400 pound gorillas, in a bathroom stall, with one switchblade knife between them. Given my druthers, the entire D&D brand would be owned...

A lot of the problem is definitional. We have a funny definition of what is "supernatural", whether it's magic or superscience, and anything that is not those things is "mundane". Personally, I think we should start by defining "supernatural" in terms of the square cube law.

Well, yes. If you don't want player characters to be powerful, you shouldn't play them at high levels.

It affects the Rogue, though, and their ability to find the wealth that exists. The Rogue's hunger for gold should not make more wealth exist in the world to be found-- though what a wonderful world this would be, if wealthy billionaires actually worked that way!

Personally, it's because I derive the majority of my spiritual sustenance from the disapproval of my lessers.

I wasn't proposing it as an alternative. It's my best theory for why the original might have seen a surge of interest.

Early Oughts, it got a fairly high profile CRPG adaptation for the 3.0 (point five, maybe?) rules.

Way I'd fix that: kill Mystic Arcanum and all 6-9 level spells from Warlock class list, allow Pact Magic to scale up to 9th for Warlock spells only with extra slots at 2/6/10/14/18, and then give them Paladin/Ranger spellcasting on top.

I'm not sentimental about vintage (or even specific) copies of old books I've loved, so I've reacquired almost everything I've regretted letting go. With the exceptions of Thri-Kreen of Athas, a mostly complete set of Shadowrun 3e, and... ironically... my Level Up kickstarter prizes. Waiting...

Something to remember about Captain America, as a high-level martial, is that he's a lot more than just "peak human". A peak human is... peak at one thing, because there are tradeoffs, physiological compromises that must be made. He is not just as strong as Hafthor Bjornsson and as fast as Usain...

I'd like to pair this with two house rules: Backgrounds don't grant proficiencies, Backgrounds are proficiencies. (Think Barbarians of Lemuria's Careers system.) The Expertise Dice from Level Up Advanced 5th Edition. Rogues, Rangers, and Bards start at +1d6; Rogues cap at +1d10.

I'd argue that a narrative mechanic is any procedure within a game that bases the resolution-- of a conflict or a question-- on factors that are not intrinsic to actors/objects within the game world itself. A Paladin who does more damage when smiting creatures who are more offensive to their...

There are a lot of great works of literature that have aged like fine milk, not through any fault of their own, but because they are no longer capable of standing out from the crowd of their own poorest imitators. Tolkien, Howard, and most of Appendix N are among them.

Use Gritty, but then have the player roll 5d4 for each ability score (in order) and use the better of each score.

Whole point of racial ASIs was to mechanically differentiate one ancestry from another. If they're not going to be doing that anymore, there's no reason for them to continue existing.

edit: Just because I'm right doesn't mean saying it is the right thing to do.

The Psion class in 3.5 and PF1 (via Dreamscarred Press) has a default class spell list, and then additional spell lists that are (mostly) only accessible to their respective specialists. Make such specialization mandatory wherein each Wizard has one specialist school-- make other arcane...

The fact that any/every game can change, and should change, and must change if it is to remain relevant in the long term really has no bearing whatsoever on whether any specific change or any group of changes is good for the game or even better for the game than the rules they replaced...